War-balloon.



G. LOTYSIEWICZ.

WAR BALLooN.

ION F APPLC 2,1918 y 1 ,299,744. Patented Apr. 8,1919.

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WABPBALLOON.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented. Anas, Taio.

Application led April 22, 1918. Serial No. 230,142.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE Lorrrsrwrcz, a citizen of Poland, resident of Brooking, Province olf Saskatchewan, Dominion of Canada, have invented certainv new and useful Improvements in Vilar-Balloons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements 1n bomb carrying structures of the balloon type and has as its special object the provlsion of means whereby a carried bomb may be the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the invention and indicating its operation, and

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view drawn to an enlarged scale of the disruptable chamber, the section being taken on line 2--2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing the numeral 10, designates a gas filled sac such as is commonly used in lighter than air devices'of the balloon type, and which may be inflated by the usual means with hydrogen or like gases, materially lighter than ordinary air.

Surrounding the sac is a nettin 11, terminating in a ring 12, all of the oregoing parts being of the usual type of construction.

Engaged with the ring 12 are cords 14, attached to eyes 15, aiixed in the upper head 16, of a hollow cylindrical chamber 18, preferably made of combustible material, and provided with a lower head 19. Secured centrally in the lower head by means of a bolt 20, held in position by a nut 21,'and having an eye 22, in a depending hook 23, by means of which the bomb 25, is suspended centrally of the balloon as can best be seen in Fig. 1.

The bomb 25 is provided with laterally extending elements 26 which act as detonators, as does also the spur shaped element 27, pending centrally downward, so that` whenever the elements 26 or 27,- come into forcible contact with a fixed object the charge within the bomb is caused to be explOded.

Arranged within the cylindrical combustible chamber 18, is an internal annular band 30, having a circular cross section and adapted to contain a charge of powder 31, the band being held in place by clips 32, and having engaged with it ya fuse 33, which will burn at a known rate of speed so that the length of the fuse regulates the time of explosion of the powder charge within the band 30, and hence the disruption of the cylinder 18, permitting the bomb 25 to drop.

In operation, the sac 10, having been in- Hated and the powder filled ring 28 being in position in the cylindrical chamber 18, a bomb may be readily engaged with the hook element 23, and the distance calculated from the point of release to the point where the bomb is to be discharged, the length of the fuse 33 corresponding to the time estimated it will take for the iiight of the balloon in a well known manner, and it will be clearly understood that when the spark within the fuse 33, reaches the powder charge 31, the cylinder 18 becomes disrupted, permitting the bomb to drop by gravity and upon striking the surface of the earth will explode by its contact.

I claim:

1. In an aerial bomb carrying device, the combination with a balloon and a bomb carried thereby, of a chamber intervening between said balloon and said bomb, a hollow band supported centrally in said chamber, said hollow band carrying a powder charge adapted to disrupt said cylinder, and a time fuse engaged with said hollow band.

.2. In an aerial bomb carrier, the combination with a balloon and an explosive bomb pendant therefrom, of a disruptable cylin der xed in the connections between said bomb and said balloon, a hollow annular element arranged centrally within said disruptable cylinder, said element carrying a powder charge, means for supporting said annular element therewithin, and a time fuse for conducting a spark to the powder charge whereby theV supporting connection of said bomb is disrupted.

In testimony whereof I have aixed my signature.

GEORGE LOTYSIEWICZ. 

